Belkin wireless g adapter problem

i have a Belkin f5d7050 wireless g network adapter, i just installed a fresh copy of Win XP pro sp2, after i installed the drivers and such for my adapter and it detects my network and then when i go to connect to it and enter the encryption key it will go to aquiring network address and nothing more, the last time i let it go for 6 hours straight and it never did connect it just kept aquiring network address. ive tried everything i know to do. any help would be greatly appreciated, i just dont understand it worked perfectly on my win 200 pro system...

Which version do you have? Pull out the PCMICA card and it should tell you?

Ver. 5
Ver. 6

These two were more stable than prior versions.

I have had purchased 4 of the Ver. 5 never had a problem with them. I know one thing I did find out the other day is that, the cards can only handle low packets. If you do anything like high impact packeting for AV media streaming then you'll run into hipcups on the AV media content.

Otherwise for general data swapping and internet surfing they make and excellent choice.

Okay back to your problem, what I would do is this:

1. Hook the laptop up using wired ethernet cable and disable the wireless
2. See if you can get a connection directly to the Router
3. Open a DOS prompt and type: route print > c:\route print.txt
4. Under run type: notepad c:\route print.txt
5. See how the connection to your Router went when you use the Route Print
6. If all is a go!, Then enable the Wireless and wait for it to connect

In step 6 it should connect right away when you connect unless your not using the right key for WEP. I would recommend using WEP 128-bit A instead of HEX. Also change the key to something new in the Wireless Router. Once you are setup under Belkin Wireless Utility change it to allow XP Pro SP2 Wireless Management. To me this works much faster then what the 3rd Party Belkin offers.

Also make sure you update the firmware for the Belkin as it does change.

oh a did i forget to mention its the usb adapter? sorry and its on a desktop 20 feet away fom the router (in another room)

will these still work for the usb? if so i shall try

i hooked up the ethernet, same thing it just continually says acquiring network address, could it be a windows problem? i dont have windows firewall on th computer at all, so i know its not that, i have no other firewalls either, im thinking i should extend my computer knowledge to networking too... but anyway any ideas?

thats what im saying its working perfectly on other computers i try,
and when i use it on this system with the fresh xp install, it just acquires the ip address forever literally... it worked on this computer before xp pro. and the other system wired to the router is working perfectly fine also.

so in this case im sure the router and such are installed properly, ive been using this computer on this router for four months now, its just stumped me now and im completely lost...

thank you for having patients with me jobeard and for the help im going to continue messing with this and hopefully ill figure it out! also thanks tipstir